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Opinion
 
Water problems

Aserious crisis seems to face Jordan in view of the continuing dry weather this winter season, the time when most of the rain usually falls in the country.

  Reality check shocks Arabs

By Daoud Kuttab

Palestinian cartoonist Khalil Abu Arafeh is no Fateh loyalist. In his early years, he supported the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. His brother Khaled was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council on the pro-Hamas Reform and Change List. Abu Arafeh’s political cartoons in the largest daily Al Quds are often seen as a reflection of the general mood of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
  'Israel not interested in making peace'

By Michael Jansen

The “Palestine Papers” released by Al Jazeera have exposed the extreme weakness of the Palestinian side, longstanding Israeli intransigence and US perfidy.
  The forgotten generation

Randa Habib’s Corner

For the past 10 years or so, we have witnessed the emergence of a younger generation at the helm of power, as a natural result of a new era marked by a dynamic will for change and fresh blood.